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  • AMC Global acquires television rights to Endemol Shine’s ‘Humans’

    AMC Global acquires television rights to Endemol Shine’s ‘Humans’

    MUMBAI: AMC Global, the international AMC-branded television network, has acquired the exclusive first window television rights to Humans from Endemol Shine International. The 8×60’ series will debut in most AMC Global territories in October with a second season to premiere in 2016.

     

    In addition, AMC Global will have simultaneous worldwide premiere of Into the Badlands, the innovative 6×60’ martial arts drama series from AMC Studios. AMC Global channels in most territories will debut the series in conjunction with AMC US on Sunday, 15 November at 10 pm and will then re-air in local time zones during primetime.  The company previously announced it had secured exclusive first window international TV rights to the series.

     

    One of this year’s most anticipated new series, Fear the Walking Dead, has received a 15-episode order for the second season which will air on AMC Global in 2016. The first season will debut worldwide simultaneously with the AMC US premiere on 23 August at 9 pm with repeats in local time zones during primetime.

     

    “AMC Global is delivering audiences around the world a superb line-up of exclusive original dramas anchored by our upcoming worldwide premiere of Fear the Walking Dead. Humans and Into the Badlands offer inspiring storylines with outstanding production values that will transport and captivate viewers. We’re thrilled to continue to showcase the incredible new dramas coming from AMC US with a run of premiere content on our channels worldwide through the end of the year,” said Sundance Channel Global and AMC president Bruce Tuchman.

  • TV and online video execs unlock mysteries of China’s TV market

    TV and online video execs unlock mysteries of China’s TV market

    MUMBAI: Nobody knows TV content in China like Hunan Broadcasting Station VP and Mango Media executive director Molly Mei Nie. Unless it’s Anke Redl – China Media Management (CMM-I) managing director and partner. Both are featured as top speakers at ‘China and the World’ convention in Shanghai that is scheduled to take place on 10 June, 2015 at Swissotel.

     

    It’s often said China will be the second largest TV market on the planet by 2016 but what is less known is how much China will change the global landscape of TV and online video. The convention will present ‘In Conversation with Molly Mei Nie’ for answers.

     

    In ‘China Going Global – Opportunities and Challenges,’ Redl will join Glocal Media founder and CEO Dennis Young and AMC Global and Sundance Channel Global president Bruce Tuchman. Young is an expert at exporting Chinese and Asian content to the US and around the world, whereas Tuchman is a specialist on the global footprint for content. 

     

    What are China’s ambitions? And what are the best opportunities? What about the regulatory front? Are you where you should be? Answering these questions will be CCTV Copyright Management Dept deputy director and Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union copyright committee chairman Yan Bo. 

     

    China and the World, organised by Lightning International and CASBAA, promises to offer a unique perspective on great TV.

  • AMC Global bags international TV rights to ‘The Walking Dead’ companion series

    AMC Global bags international TV rights to ‘The Walking Dead’ companion series

    MUMBAI: Coinciding with an AMC U.S. pickup of two seasons of The Walking Dead companion series (title TBD), AMC Global has announced its acquisition of the international television rights to the series, and plans to air each episode within 24 hours of its US premiere.

     

    Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero and David Alpert from The Walking Dead are executive producers of the new series, which, like the original, is being produced by AMC Studios. Dave Erickson (Marco Polo, Sons of Anarchy), who co-created and co-wrote the pilot with Kirkman, is an executive producer and showrunner. The series will star Cliff Curtis (Missing, Gang Related), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, Sons of Anarchy), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm).

     

    The new series will be set in Los Angeles and focus on new characters and storylines. The show’s first season will consist of six, one-hour episodes and premiere on AMC in late summer. The show’s second season will air in 2016. 

     

    “The AMC brand is quickly becoming synonymous with the most sought after and compelling content around the world,” said AMC and Sundance Channel global president Bruce Tuchman. “We’re pleased to bring the series to a global audience within 24 hours of the U.S. premiere and ensure that The Walking Dead’s worldwide community of fans can experience this new story together as it unfolds.”

     

     AMC Networks COO Ed Carroll added, “With Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson at the helm, along with an amazing group of executive producers and cast, this new series will give The Walking Dead fans what they’ve been asking for all along — a look at another part of the zombie apocalypse and one which takes us back to the very beginning of the plague.”